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Randy Martin
(randalmartin) -
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My Locale

Colorado

About Me

My primary pursuits are mountaineering (hiking with the goal of a summit) but I am beginning to re-kindle my love of Backpacking. In particular I have become a big fan of the Ultralight approach and love this website. I seem to be in a perpetual state of shelter/sleep system evaluation. My current setup for shelter is a GG SpinnTwinn with YMG Bug Bivy 1.0 (summer) or Katabatic Bristlecone Bivy(colder). Sleep system is Katabatic Chisos 40 degree quilt with Neoair short.

City

Castle Rock

State

CO

Country

USA

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All Forum Posts by Randy Martin

Re: Re: Re: 20% off coupon works now"a lot of personal information on a very public forum. guess not everyone's worried about privacy."
What's to be worried about? No one is putting the credit card numbers out ...

Mesh Pocket on JamSo I had Katharina Pierini make me a custom mesh pocket for my Jam using some No-see-um mesh. Below are pictures. My next step is likely to completely remove the outside pocket on the Jam. The s...

Re: Trail runners and heavy pack weight?"My pack usually weighs north of 50lbs and I am almost exclusively off-trail bushwacking."
Sounds like the first thing is get your pack weight down and then trail runners will make sense.

Re: A few thoughts, Meta 2pI would strongly encourage you to look only at dual side entry tents. There are plenty out there and for two people a dual entry, dual vestibule is an awesome feature. For that reason alone I wou...

SOLD Arcteryx Theta AR Men's Small$125 Shipped CONUS. Used less than 10 times all in winter. This is a Goretex Pro Shell Arcteryx jacket. Do your research and you will know your buying a premium shell.
The second and third pi...

Re: Re: Sleeping Bags vs Quilts" "With the Katabatic quilts.....hang a leg out "
How do you do that when it looks like its a mummy quite high up on the leg? I guess it depends on the model?"
You just be...

Marmot AtomThe bag is true to it's 40 degree rating and when I sleep with insulating layers on I have comfortably slept in this bag down to the upper 20's. If you are cold in this bag at 50 then I suspe...